Sitting in a three-way tie for first place in the SEC West, the Auburn baseball team will visit one of the three co-leaders in the SEC East this weekend as it travels to No. 2 S. Carolina.
None of the teams Auburn beat — Kentucky, LSU and Ole Miss — to regain its footing in the SEC West can measure up to South Carolina.
None of them can boast a 2.63 team ERA, a No. 2 national ranking or the distinction of being the reigning College World Series champion.
The closest approximation the Tigers have for the test that awaits them this weekend in Columbia, S.C., comes from an early season game against top-ranked Virginia and a three-game set against Vanderbilt — also ranked No. 2 in some polls — at the beginning of April.
Auburn lost all four games by a combined score of 41-12, in its home park.
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The Auburn bats pounded out 16 hits and the Auburn pitching staff held Texas Southern to just five hits as the Auburn baseball team cruised to an 11-1 win on Wednesday night at Plainsman Park.
Auburn needed an opponent to help it forget about its shutout loss to Samford on Tuesday, and Texas Southern was just the team to provide that amnesia.
The Tigers scored all of their runs in the first four innings off Texas Southern, more than enough for an 11-1 win at Plainsman Park on Wednesday night.
“That taste we had in our mouths last night was certainly one we wanted to get rid of,” Auburn coach John Pawlowski said. “I thought our players came out tonight with the right frame of mind and played some good, solid baseball. It was certainly what we needed.”
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On Feb. 27, 2010, four of Auburn Tigers baseball’s greats were honored with their induction into the Auburn Baseball Wall of Fame. Tim Hudson, Bo Jackson, Gregg Olson and Frank Thomas were part of the inaugural class
Tim Hudson, from Phenix City, was a two-year letter winner (1996-97) at Auburn and was named the 1997 Rotary Smith Award Winner as the top player in college baseball. In 1997 he went 15-2 with a 2.97 ERA on the mound while also hitting .396 as the Tigers tied the school record for wins (50) and advanced to the College World Series for the fourth time in school history. His 15 wins led the nation and he was named a consensus All-America and the SEC Player of the Year. A sixth-round pick of the Oakland Athletics in 1997, he is a two-time All-Star (1999 and 2004) and is entering his 12th major league season and sixth with the Atlanta Braves.
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The Auburn baseball team could muster just six hits off of Samford as it lost 8-0 Tuesday night at Plainsman Park.
Two weekends in a row, Auburn has claimed two of three games against SEC opponents.
And two Tuesdays in a row, the Tigers have come out flat against in-state foes.
The latest version came in an 8-0 loss to Samford on Tuesday night at Plainsman Park, one in which the Bulldogs plated seven runs off starter Andrew Morris in the first three innings and the Tigers managed only six hits.
Samford (25-17) swept Auburn (22-18) for the first time in its history as a Division-I program, a week after South Alabama handed the Tigers a surprisingly similar 7-1 loss.
“We’ve been having really good weekends lately, and maybe we’ve just not been getting up for these midweek games,” junior shortstop Casey McElroy said. “It’s really no excuse. We should make every game like it is a championship game.
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